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Gear Expo is right around the corner, and that means that pretty soon all things gearing will be squarely in the spotlight. Custom gear manufacturing services, design software, gearboxes and more — you’ll be able to learn everything you need to know about who and what’s going to be at the show in our upcoming September issue, but until then, here’s a brief sneak peak of one specific corner of the show: gear drives.
ASI Drives
Booth 630
ASI Drives is a custom manufacturer of gear drives for battery-powered vehicles and equipment. They specialize in machines that carry between 400 and 2000 pounds, but have designed products for machines that carry between 50 and 6000 pounds and can produce between 50 watts and 1.5 kilowatts. ASI has decades of experience in gear design. They cut all their gears in-house to their specifications. They can streamline the engineering process by solving your engineering problems, saving time on your product launch cycle. They have a full understanding of the entire process, from sketches to production. ASI strives to be as flexible as possible in order to meet your specific needs. They are world leaders in gear drives and gear design.
ASI will be displaying its new shop bot, which will demonstrate their capabilities to design and build an AGV for your factory floor. The bot has a custom-built frame, with two wheels designed to minimize wear and one castor wheel for increased mobility. It's been programmed to follow a path laid out by panels on the ground. ASI will also be bringing a number of product samples to Gear Expo. We'll have products from our families of transaxles, wheel drives and right angle drives, along with some custom designs.
Oerlikon Drive Systems (booth 915), a part of the Swiss-based Oerlikon Group, is a leading supplier of high-precision gears, drives and shifting solutions. Under its market-leading brands of Oerlikon Fairfield and Oerlikon Graziano, the segment provides gears, splined shafts and components, synchronizer assemblies, planetary drives, transmissions and custom gearboxes for a wide range of applications, including sports cars, hybrid and electric vehicles to machinery and equipment for agriculture, construction, mining and energy production.
A variety of custom gears, shifting solutions, final drives and transmissions will be shown at the show. Specific end-use applications on display will include a track drive for a compact track loader, a swing drive for a ladder truck, tram and shuttle car drives for underground mining, integrated hydraulic and electric planetary final drives, a generator set with step up gearing for off highway hybrid-electric vehicles and innovative transmission designs that extend the range of electric passenger vehicles.